Heads

James Greenway

Description

‘Heads is a film piece made as a response to the work of Swedish artist Pontus Lindvall. Greenway was invited by the artist to make a contribution to an exhibition of his work at the September Gallery, Berlin. The resulting work was a series of film portraits of the hand carved heads which were some of the objects which Lindvall had created for the exhibition. The film creates a refined perspective of the sculptural quality of the objects as entities in themselves stripped of any functional purpose. The film was informed by conversations between Greenway and Lindvall in which they discussed Lindvall’s conceptual concerns in the making of the objects. Aspects of muteness and autonomy within a community became highlighted in the portraits and further distilled through the process of translating them to film. The resulting silent film projection stands alone as a work in itself with an archival quality evocative of ethnological observations of tribal objects.’
(Sourced from private vimeo link on March 11th 2016)